When All the Girls Have Gone
When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz is $1.99! Elyse read this one and gave it a B:
I could have used a little more depth to Max and Charlotte’s relationship, but aside from that, I found When All the Girls Have Gone to be a solid romantic mystery without any terrifying elements, and I’ll definitely be picking up the next book in the series.
Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender to, and the lengths we’ll go to for the truth…
When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.Beautiful, brilliant—and reckless—Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames—literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max needs the job.
After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn’s closest friends, women in a Seattle-based online investment club, for answers. But what they find is chilling…
When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her life. For the shadows of Jocelyn’s past are threatening to consume her—and anyone else who gets in their way…
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Long Hard Ride by Lorelei James is $2.99 at Amazon! It looks like ebook versions have disappeared from other vendors. James writes some hot erotica, usually with cowboys. Though there is a lot of sex (it is erotica after all), the characters are interesting and at times, the plot can get pretty emotional. I’m a fan of many of her books. Several of the other books in the series are available at a reduced price.
One lucky woman is in for the ride of her life with three sexy cowboys…
During summer break, wannabe wild woman Channing Kinkaid is offered the chance to shed her inhibitions and horse around on the road with a real chaps-and-spurs wearing rodeo cowboy.
From the moment Colby McKay—bull rider, saddle bronc buster and calf roper—sets his lust-filled eyes on the sweet and fiery Channing, he knows she’s up to the challenge of being his personal buckle bunny. But he also demands that his rodeo traveling partners, Trevor and Edgard are allowed to join in their no-holds-barred sexcapades.
Although Channing secretly longed to be the sole focus of more than one man’s passions, all is not as it seems with the sexy trio. Colby’s demand for her complete submission behind closed doors tests her willful nature, and his sweet-talking ways burrow into her heart.
Will Colby have to break out the bullropes and piggin’ string to convince this headstrong filly that the road to true love doesn’t have to be as elusive as that championship belt buckle?
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The Long Way Home by Jasinda Wilder is 99c at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! It’s a Kindle Daily Deal, but apparently the sale price hasn’t been matched yet. There are also a lot of crafting books in today’s deals. In this one, the hero and heroine are married, though separated after some infidelity. The hero and heroine communicate mainly though letters and emails. Maybe read the sample first for this one!
I need you, Ava.
I am desperate. For you. For touch. For a kiss. For the scrape of your hand down my stomach. For the slide of your lips across my hipbone. The sweep of your thigh against mine in the dulcet, drowning darkness. For the warm huff of your breath on my skin and the wet suck of your mouth around me and the building pressure of need reaching release…I am mad with need.
Wild with it.
I cannot have you. I have lost you, as I have lost myself.
And so I go in search. Of myself, and thus the man who might return to you, and take you in his arms.
I loathe each of the thousands of miles between us, but I cannot wish them away, for I hope at the end of my journey I shall find you. Or rather, find myself, and thus…you. Myself, and thus us.
I am taking the long way home, Ava.
* * *
Christian,
I’m losing my mind, and I don’t know how to stop it. I shouldn’t be writing to you, but I am. I’m friendless, loveless, and lifeless. You’re out there somewhere, and still you’re all I really have. I hate my reliance and dependence on you, emotionally and otherwise, and that reliance is something I’m coming to recognize. I hate that I can’t hate you as much as I want to. I hate that I still love you so much.
I hate that there’s no clear solution to our conundrum. Even if we could forgive each other, what then?
I hate you, Christian. I really do.
But most of all, I don’t.
It’s complicated.
Complicatedly (still) yours,
Ava
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Fluffy by Julia Kent is $2.99 at Amazon! It’s available elsewhere, but not on sale. I’m on the fence about trying this one because it sounds hilarious with the “fluffer” misunderstanding, but humor is so subjective and I’ve been burned by romantic comedies before.
An all-new STANDALONE from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent
It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.
I’m a professional fluffer. It’s NOT what you think. I stage homes for a living. Real estate agents love me, and my work stands on its own merits.
Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I’ll wait.
See? That’s the problem. My career has used the term “fluffer” for decades. I didn’t even know there was a more… lascivious definition of the term.
Until it was too late.
The ad for a “professional fluffer” on Craigslist seemed like divine intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day. The perfect job!
Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a “fluffer” doesn’t arrange decorative pillows on a couch.
They arrange other soft, round-ish objects.
The job isn’t hard. Er, I mean, it is — it’s about being hard. Or, well… helping other people to be hard.
Oh, man…
And that’s the other problem. A man. No, not one of the stars on the movie set. Will Lotham – my high school crush. The owner of the house where we’re filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.
By the time the cops show up, what I thought was just a great house staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with an undressed star, Will rescuing me from an arrest, and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.
My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know what’s easier than I ever imagined?
Having all my dreams come true.
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Julia Kent has never done it for me—she’s too strenuous about trying to make the reader laugh. A lighter touch would be welcome. It’s a shame because she has a bunch of freebies in the kindle store.
I’m curious about the Wilder. I know cheating is a hard no for many readers, but I’m interested in how writers incorporate cheating into a romance and still achieve an HEA for their protagonists.
Gotta say, Fluffy sounds hilarious.
Oh, I remember that blurb!
Him: I miss the way you take care of my dick.
Her: I have actual adult feelings.
Yeah, still don’t want that guy to have an HEA with anybody.
Fluffy was my first Julia Kent, and reminded me a bit of Pippa Grant in that it was a bit over the top, screwball comedy type stuff. I enjoyed it, but probably not enough to pay full price – I would keep reading this series if it was in KU.
Cheating is a usual no for me, not because of the actual cheating, but because it always seems to be a male character cheating while female characters are all chaste and virtuous. Then the female does all the emotional labour while dude is all “I’m sorry, here’s my magic peen to make it okay.” AND there are always ‘reasons’ like man-is-alcoholic and/or man-pain backstory. AND it’s always somehow both their faults, because woman is responsible for where man sticks his dick or something.
I also haaaaaaaaate when male character has been super promiscuous and female character has had like two partners because it’s so common. Even in fiction we don’t get to escape the idea that women who enjoy sex and have lots of partners are dirty and immoral. Fuck that.
@Nan De Plume: There was a discussion on All About Romance a week or so ago about what you can’t accept in romance—and cheating was one of the top “hard no” list. I asked if anyone knew of any romances where cheating occurred but a plausible HEA is achieved. There weren’t too many responses. I seem to recall some very early (mid-1980s) Mary Balogh Regencies where a newly-married man continued visiting his mistress.
Ironically, when I went to read a sample of THE LONG WAY HOME, I discovered on page one that the precipitating crisis in the couple’s marriage is one of my hard no’s: death of a child. This is no spoiler, it is stated on the first page, but cw/tw to everyone because apparently it’s the devastating event of losing a child that leads to couple to separate and, presumably, cheat. While I’m interested in those rare romances that address cheating (or even, as Nan points out, attraction yo someone other than a partner), I don’t think I can read one that involves a child dying.
If the blurb actually described the book instead of using emo character quotes, readers wouldn’t be blindsided by that. Non-descriptive blurbs are a pet peeve of mine.
@DiscoDollyDeb thank you for the information about the child death. That is one of my hard nos as well, to the point I have a hard time reading even other books by an author after reading one that includes a child death. I stopped reading Tessa Dare after getting to one of the Spindle Cove books where the hero’s daughter’s death was in the backstory.
Am I being too snarky/critical of the Wilder book quote, in an epistolary novel, that “you’re out there somewhere”? Aren’t you sending him a letter? Doesn’t that imply you have his address? Or are these the types of letters they write but never send?
@Wait, what?: As far as I could tell, he’s writing in a journal and she’s writing blog entries. I didn’t read too far into the sample because once I knew the book involved a child’s death, I knew I would probably not be able to read the whole thing; but in the part I did read, I felt the heroine’s disclosures on her blog were TMI—especially regarding her feelings about the appearance of her post-childbirth genitalia (which she describes as looking like an Arby’s roast beef sandwich—eeeuuuwww!). Yeah—for a variety of reasons, I won’t be reading THE LONG WAY HOME.
I may be alone on this one, but I’ve found Krantz’ murder mysteries to be pretty dire and unenchanting on multiple levels. James has been all over the place for me too, but I still prefer Krantz’ romance.
I feel like the post above (“that’s a very helpful & detailed article”) is likely spam, but don’t know how to report it…
@Taylor: I’ll take care of it! Thank you!